Jewish Studies Portal

Slide1: JSP Jewish Studies Portal
Slide2: It’s 1 a.m. … the world is asleep …
Slide3: except for Plony and Plonit
Slide4: They are frantically finishing their HUC research papers
Slide5: They need articles and texts … But the library is closed and the librarians are asleep
Slide6: The Light Dawns! They remembered that they had set up the Jewish Studies Portal
Slide7: It’s JSP to the rescue!
Slide8: TJ Williams (NY) ([email protected]) Mark Jennings (Cin) ([email protected]) Jen Plante (LA) ([email protected]) John Bruggeman (Jer) ([email protected]) Help! Sure! I.T. in a box ;-)
Slide9: They had gone to http://jsp.huc.edu and logged in pbenplony **********
Slide10: They saw lots of great resources …
Slide11: But Wait! Since this was their first time using JSP on their computer, they had to download the program that runs it. Click here or here
Slide12: TJ Williams (NY) ([email protected]) Mark Jennings (Cin) ([email protected]) Jen Plante (LA) ([email protected]) John Bruggeman (Jer) ([email protected]) Once again, the friendly HUC IT folks, were happy to help with questions about loading the program. Call us! e-mail us! send us a post card!
Slide13: Hurray! Time to get started!
Slide14: There are lots of search options
Slide15: DavkaWriter lets you do word processing in both Hebrew and English. Different versions of DavkaWriter do not speak to each other – i.e. You can’t open a DW5 document in a later or earlier version
Encyclopaedia Judaica : Encyclopaedia Judaica CD-ROM based on the 1974 EJ
Slide17: Plonit remembered to ask her local librarian for the login and password. Encyclopaedia Judaica 2007
Slide18: In English or Hebrew Pick your texts to search
Slide19: Online Library Resources HUH? Periodical Indexes! HUH?
Slide20: Online Library Resources This is the place to click if you are looking for Articles in Journals or Essays in Books Click on ATLA You can search the ATLA (American Theological Library Association) database and the Index to Jewish Periodicals
Slide21: Responsa, Yes, but so much more! Tanakh! Midrash Talmud Commentaries
Slide22: The Jewish Studies Portal gives you all this and … Printing! Saving to your computer
Slide23: Plonit and Plony are thrilled! They find everything they need – They get “A”s on their papers They send their IT maven and their librarian flowers